Our Institutions Have Rotted From Within. Senator Marco Rubio joins us to discuss the rot within the U.S. Secret Service and the problems it is facing. Charlie Kirk is running the White House, and we are so lucky to have him. He is a hero in the conservative movement, and has done a great job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA. We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and will fight for freedom on campuses across the country. That is why we are here. Charlie has been on the college campus, and he will continue to do so until the day we wake up to the fact that our institutions have been rotten from within and rot needs to be stopped. Charlie is a force to be reckoned with, and I thank him for all of the work he has done to build one of America's most influential youth organizations, TPC USA. Thank you Charlie, and thank you for all the work you are doing to build TPCUSA. You are an inspiration to so many young men and women around the country, and you are a beacon of hope and inspiration to the next generation of freedom and freedom fighters everywhere. Go get your tickets to The Charlie Kirk Show! Today's episode is sponsored by Noble Gold Investments, a company that specializes in gold and physical delivery of precious metals. Go to noblegoldinvestments.com/TheCharlieKirkShow to receive 20% off your first order of 1 ounce of gold and 20% of your first month of your total gold or platinum! Learn how you could protect your wealth with Noble Gold Investing in the Noble Gold Investor Investments at noblegold.com. That's where I buy all of your gold and I'll send you all of my gold! Go to NobleGoldInvestments.co/thecharliekirkShow.co and get 5% off the purchase of a piece of gold, you get 20% OFF your first week of the show! It's the best deal anywhere else in the world! You can get 10% off of the best gold, I'm giving you can do it all, I'll be giving you $5, $10,000, $20,000 or $25,000 gets you get 5,000 and I'm getting a discount on the show, $50,000 at The CharlieKirk Show, and they'll get a FREE PRICED PRICING AND I'll give you 5% OFF.
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00:01:31.000And I saw how the Secret Service was operating, and Don Jr., who I was very close with, and President Trump obviously had Secret Service protection all throughout the 2016 campaign, and then we won, and I spent a lot of time with Secret Service agents.
00:01:45.000And I had such high trust of those institutions.
00:01:52.000I used to trust largely many parts of the FBI.
00:01:56.000I never would have thought that the CDC or the Center for Disease Control or the FDA or the Food and Drug Administration would lie to us and cover things up and manipulate information.
00:02:08.000As we did the long march through the institutions, which of course is a left-wing phrase from Rudy Duchka, said nearly 70 years ago of how the left would capture all of our institutions.
00:02:19.000As I saw these, as we marched through these institutions for many years, I soon realized, one after the other, the rot that our institutions have been experiencing.
00:02:34.000The infection that is present, the tumor within the once great institutions in Washington, D.C.
00:02:43.000And not just in D.C., but from colleges to corporations.
00:02:48.000But the one institution that I never thought that I would have to question is the U.S.
00:03:03.000I never thought that the US Secret Service would succumb to an ideological takeover.
00:03:10.000The scariest thing with the Secret Service going bad is you know that the rot In DC is deep and that tumor is metastasizing.
00:03:20.000Sometimes conservatives think the left is just ruining public goods while reserving nice things for themselves.
00:03:27.000But when the personal security team of the president, which they obviously want to control and currently control, is getting ruined by DEI, lacks standards and laziness, When a left-wing president is putting his own life at risk, you know that they are totally consumed with this arsenic, with this poison.
00:03:47.000Now understand, the Secret Service has different physical qualifications for female agents and male agents.
00:03:55.000The old Secret Service director, the Dorito woman, who her experience was protecting Mountain Dew and Doritos, Was trying to make 30% of all Secret Service agents female.
00:04:08.000Did you know that Secret Service requires weapon-carrying agents to take physical fitness tests every three months?
00:04:13.000That makes sense, since the people protecting a president should be in top physical condition.
00:04:18.000But did you know that standards are radically different for men and women?
00:04:21.000To get an excellent score for push-ups, a 20-something male agent is expected to do at least 55 push-ups.
00:04:30.000A female agent needs to get the same score, just 40.
00:04:52.000I can do about 8 chin-ups, depending on how you qualify it.
00:04:58.000I should be nowhere near the Secret Service, and a female agent only needs to do 4 chin-ups?
00:05:04.000A male agent is expected to run a mile and a half in about 10 minutes.
00:05:08.000A female agent is allowed nearly 13 minutes.
00:05:11.000That is not even an 8 minute mile, which explains some of the overweight female agents that I saw at the event this last weekend.
00:05:20.000I'm not criticizing them, and I'm sure that they deal with weight problems, but these were not exactly the machismo people you want protecting President Trump.
00:05:50.000The Secret Service is not an agency that embraces meritocracy.
00:05:55.000And we have up on screen the Secret Service that is being cross-examined by, right now, the excellent Senator from Texas, Senator Ted Cruz.
00:06:03.000We saw one of the female agents, and I'm not attacking her because she's female, I'm attacking her because we have relaxed standards, obviously, to try to diversify the Secret Service, which then compromises excellence.
00:06:17.000Donald Trump got shot and Capitore died because of a diversity, equity and inclusive agenda that infected the U.S.
00:06:30.000Acting United States Secret Service Director Robert, Ronald L. Rowe, who is now testifying in front of the Senate, said that Trump got shot and Kobe died because of a lack of imagination.
00:07:25.000Hundreds of thousands of lives could have been saved with early interventions, early treatment, let alone just vitamin D supplementation.
00:07:34.000Millions of kids lives were ruined during COVID unnecessarily and we have seen institution after institution but the one that I believe most Americans had trust in were those macho men around the president.
00:07:49.000Whether it's a president we like or a president we despise like Obama, we want that president protected for no other reason that the established order of a civilization Cannot be thwarted or uprooted by an assassination.
00:08:09.000Many Americans would probably say, well surely the President's security is the best of the best.
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00:12:02.000This is about the protection of President Trump.
00:12:05.000But it is very clear that from the top of the US Secret Service, there is an attitude that has infected the Secret Service that the protection of Donald Trump is not a top priority.
00:12:18.000Now maybe it's a protection of all protectees.
00:12:53.000He's like, yeah, they just waved me in.
00:12:55.000Now, it could be, and it could be, that the Secret Service was trusting of us, and Turning Point USA and Turning Point Action is worthy of that trust.
00:13:05.000However, I would not have taken the slightest offense at everybody being double and triple checked, given recent events.
00:13:15.000And let's just be very clear, even though that turning point might be very worthy of trust, and we're very thankful for that, I suppose, it could have just been a bad guy that put on a turning point shirt, or it could have been one bad actor, or one person that is a proxy.
00:13:29.000The protection of the president, and the former president, soon to be next president, God willing, this is not a game.
00:13:47.000If President Trump gets shot again, which there is no guarantee of his safety at this point, The Secret Service is tasked right now with protecting the entire civilization.
00:13:59.000If Trump would have gotten killed in Butler, Pennsylvania, if Trump would have died in Butler, Pennsylvania, what would our country look like today?
00:14:22.000Somebody I know that went into the event texted me afterwards and She said hey, you know, I got into the event I had a pocketknife and I forgot that I had it and they didn't catch it Well, that happens all the time.
00:14:37.000They miss stuff all the time, the Secret Service does.
00:14:40.000They miss weapons, they miss firearms, they miss pocket knives.
00:14:43.000I can't tell you how many times attendees have emailed us and told us throughout the years, yeah Charlie, I went to a Trump event in Georgia, I forgot I had a gun on me and the metal detector just didn't catch it and they didn't get it.
00:16:07.000I know you were in another committee hearing, but this really is the viral news right now.
00:16:12.000Any reaction to the handling of the Secret Service's events post-Butler?
00:16:16.000Well, I'm glad to see that he said the Secret Service is to blame and isn't putting it on the local police department.
00:16:21.000So my view from the beginning has been, knowing the threats that exist against Donald Trump from foreign governments like Iran, that the protection that they had given him was not commensurate to the threat.
00:16:32.000And it is also, you don't have to be a security expert to know that a sniper on top of a rooftop is the quintessential, like the most risky of all threats that you face in an environment like the one that President Trump was in.
00:16:45.000It should have been the number one priority in terms of securing perimeter and the like.
00:17:14.000The answer to that is not to have some counter-sniper ready to take him out after he's fired seven or eight shots.
00:17:19.000The answer is to never let him get up there in the first place, and if he gets up there, not to allow Trump to take the stage until he's removed.
00:17:42.000Can you imagine where this country would be right now and the damage it would have done to America?
00:17:46.000Had President Trump gotten his head blown off on national television broadcast to the world?
00:17:51.000Can you just, apart from the human tragedy, and we already had a human tragedy because someone died at that rally and two others were seriously injured, but can you imagine what would have happened if he had been assassinated?
00:18:00.000The damage it would have done to America.
00:18:02.000This is unacceptable and someone needs to be held responsible and accountable.
00:18:05.000We have to make sure that whatever it is that led to this never happens again.
00:18:58.000They basically have just... This is a criminal organization that's empowered itself of a very wealthy country.
00:19:04.000And so the result is 8 million Venezuelans have left there in the last decade, many of them headed here and in other parts of the world, and they've been driving that.
00:19:12.000Biden comes in and says, we will lift the sanctions and we will send you two convicted drug dealers, convicted, sitting in federal prison, who are nephews of Maduro, Biden released him.
00:19:24.000He also released the number one money launderer, someone who the Trump administration went to great lengths to have him extradited to the United States when he was apprehended in Africa.
00:19:33.000They released all these bad guys in exchange for a promise to have free and fair elections, which they were never going to do.
00:19:54.000The Biden-Harris administration were clowned again on foreign policy and, by the way, lifted oil sanctions on them because we wanted to buy more of their oil, but we won't let our own companies produce here at home.
00:20:05.000So it's a fiasco all the way around, and you're absolutely right.
00:20:07.000It is another reminder that everywhere where socialism is, always winds up with the same thing.
00:20:23.000Why the hell would we ever want that in America?
00:20:25.000Not to mention this is also is a story of election integrity and not having transparent elections is that illegitimate regimes try to put forward elections that do not have trust and do not have transparency.
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00:21:44.000The Venezuelan story also is very chilling because we've seen the response from protesters in the streets that are now just being rounded up, being shot at by this basically a military junta that controls Venezuela.
00:22:00.000If President Trump is to win in January, what should the U.S.
00:22:04.000response be to, as you say, this narco state that calls itself the Venezuelan government?
00:22:09.000Well understand I care deeply about this issue and I always tell people the answer to what happens in Venezuela ultimately resides inside of Venezuela with their own people who very bravely as you said are taking to the streets and have for many years and done things about it.
00:22:21.000But we have our national security interests.
00:22:23.000Venezuela's an enemy, the Maduro regime is an enemy of the United States.
00:22:27.000They buy weapons from Iran, they help Iran evade sanctions with Hezbollah, They're trafficking networks and their activity in the hemisphere is headquartered out of Venezuela.
00:24:08.000Harris coming up in November, and part of that is the ticket Trump-Vance.
00:24:13.000Senator, you took to Twitter this weekend, and we were texting about it, defending J.D.
00:24:17.000Vance against some of the very nasty attacks that were launched against him.
00:24:22.000I want to thank you for doing that for many reasons, because it was very credible coming from you the way you did it, because you were a finalist for Trump's vice president.
00:24:31.000And you said, look, any one of us that would have gotten selected would have experienced this type of treatment.
00:24:39.000The first is they basically, that's what always makes me laugh, you know, I go back to 2008.
00:24:44.000I remember the day after John McCain Okay, who was a darling of the media for much of his career, but the minute he became the Republican nominee, I think it was like a day or two later, the New York Times ran this scandalous, outrageous story that turned out to be discredited, that he was basically implying he was having affairs with lobbyists.
00:25:01.000Think about the things they accused Mitt Romney of.
00:25:03.000They accused Mitt Romney of not respecting women, of all kinds of things that they accused him of, of being some sort of out of touch guy that didn't like working people and so forth.
00:25:15.000They called George W. Bush a war criminal.
00:25:18.000So any Republican, they're going to smear, I don't care who you are.
00:25:21.000The only difference is, you know, Trump is like the first one that kind of gave it back to them in equal measure, and they don't like that.
00:25:26.000So whoever he would have picked as vice president, they would have, maybe there would have been different stories, but it would have been the same line of attack.
00:25:32.000And part of the reason for that is that Kamala Harris is indefensible.
00:25:37.000Everybody should read this New York Times article, very well sourced article.
00:25:41.000Jonathan Martin, I think, wrote it, along with another reporter.
00:25:44.000And it talked about how Biden appointed this independent committee to help him pick a VP.
00:25:48.000And Kamala Harris was neither the candidate who most impressed them, nor the person that the advisors on that committee thought was prepared to be president.
00:25:57.000And then she was a disaster when she took vice president.
00:25:59.000She was a disaster when she was in the Senate.
00:26:01.000Huge levels of internal staff turnover.
00:26:04.000She had this disastrous trip to Central America that led to all kinds of backbiting.
00:26:34.000But I truly believe that when all is said and done, particularly after Labor Day, after their convention, it's going to come down to something very simple.
00:26:41.000Everything Joe Biden has done that's damaged this country, Kamala Harris was there for it and supported it.
00:26:46.000And in fact, I would say that Joe Biden's career, for the most part, until recently, was that he was sort of like a 20th century Democrat, you know, She, the liberals, the far left, they sort of rented Joe
00:27:32.000In the back of everyone's credit card, we get asked for it all the time, there's this code called the CBV code, and it allows you to track that account and where it's located.
00:27:39.000And ActBlue, we use it, when Red uses it, everybody else uses it, but you can donate money, thousands and thousands of dollars to ActBlue without your CVV code on it.
00:27:50.000And so I want to pass a law that requires that all these online donations using credit cards require a CVV, so we can make sure that that person is actually in the United States and eligible to contribute.
00:28:00.000Otherwise, you could have some credit card in China, basically putting millions of dollars in small dollar donations, into political campaigns in America.
00:28:07.000ActBlue has become a money laundering operation and they are, because they don't take the CVV,
00:28:12.000it's a deliberate strategy on their part.
00:28:14.000We should have a law that closes that.
00:28:29.000I really believe that there is a flow of tens of millions of dollars of foreign money that is coming into our election system in hard money, small dollar chunks, via ActBlue.
00:28:43.000And I hope you stay on the case there, Senator, because I believe if we're able to stop that, the Democrats will lose a lot of their cash advantage.
00:28:50.000Senator, thank you for your leadership.
00:29:40.000One of the reasons why we are the most depressed, suicidal, anxious, alcohol addicted generation in history and country in history is we have decided to no longer get married and no longer have children.
00:29:53.000The existential despair that so many young people feel can be filled by getting married and having kids.
00:31:00.000So don't misunderstand it for him wanting more children.
00:31:03.000He wants a certain kind of, you know, racist thing.
00:31:08.000Yeah, she has three children apparently, so it's just, it's unbelievable to me that she plays into that and she's allowed on television, just allowed to say that.
00:31:17.000Now why is it that so many people are not having children?
00:31:21.000Well, as a little bit of a corollary, the white dudes for Kamala Harris had a meeting.
00:32:03.000And that happens at the same time as the myths around America that we grew up with, that we as men are expected to be protectors and providers, are going out into economy that doesn't really allow for that, especially for working class folks.
00:32:19.000And sort of like compounding on that, you know, masculinity as a trope has been co-opted by the MAGA right into something that feeds into and exacerbates the loneliness epidemic, as well as the mental health crisis that many face that end up leading to really destructive behaviors.
00:32:36.000We aren't the only ones that are hurt by these things.
00:32:38.000Black and brown people, LGBTQIA plus people, especially trans women and indigenous people.
00:32:45.000This guy just embodies the infertility crisis.
00:32:49.000The whole white dudes for Kamala Harris Zoom call was one of the funniest things I've ever seen.
00:32:56.000These are sad excuses for men, one after the other after the other.
00:33:00.000Oh yes, I'm so masculine because I'm a white dude lecturing you about LGBTQI+.
00:33:06.000Yeah, masculinity has been co-opted by the MAGA right.
00:33:38.000You don't mess with childless cat ladies.
00:33:43.000If this is what the election will be about, I think there are more people with families, more young men that want a future than whatever that is.
00:33:51.000And the man bun laments of the white dudes for Harris.
00:33:57.000Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:33:58.000Email us as always freedom at charliekirk.com.